What about Romney, the greatest flip-flopper of them all! Is he coming to Missouri? We all know that recently fired former Senator Talent is a big booster of Romney, who is anxious to become the “third term” of the failed CheneyBush regime. ( By the way, I was quoting Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee about Romney and Bush’s “third term.”) And where does Congressman Todd Akin, Republican-Plaza Frontenac stand on the Republican presidential primary? Maybe he too busy helping State Senator Loudon write that really important legislation about “A.D. vs C.E.” While Iraq was burning, and New Orleans was under water, Mr. Akin was busy working on his protecting the Pledge of Allegiance in Congress. These guys are members of the mostly male, mostly pale, and always stale corporate elite who run our beloved country. We average folks have nothing in common with them. We have a chance this year to really shake them up. Wake up, America!

Whiterose, your posts continue to show how pathetic you must be.

The idea that you must have in your head of Utopia frightens me.

Jim(the Republican): The New Year did not bring a new attitude from you. You continue to engage in ad hominemism, likely because you lack any credible ammunition to use, such as facts. What does Utopia have to do with a principled opposition to the super-rich? From the end of the Great Depression through the 1960’s, our middle class was expanding. The mixed Keynesian economy was working rather well in our beloved country. The radical right wing economic model of Milton Friedman and the advance of the super-rich, to the detriment of the 95% of we Americans, has been successful in re-establishing the radical income inequality that held forth during the Gilded Age. I don’t think we had Utopia from the 1930’s through the 1960’s, but we did have a consensus that having a strong and burgeoning middle class is the best guarantor of the well-being of our children and grandchildren. It is time for change and change, whether Jim(the republican) or Jim Talent, likes it or not. Thank you for waking up, America!

Your overuse of the term “ad-hominism” is tiring, as are your rants against anyone in power who happens to be caucasian.

You suggest that I’M lacking facts while going off the way you do? LOL!

Your opposition to the “super-rich” seems to reek of jealousy more than anything. You’re upset with their level of success, therefore, they should be denied the fruits of their labor.

Let me shed a little light for you, Whiterose …

Many of those who are “super-rich” have sacrificed in order to get where they are. They invested wisely, or built better mousetraps, and in so doing, they chose to hire employees to work for them.

These are the people who build nations, Whiterose. I know you can’t see that, but that’s okay.

We’re used to it.

Jim(the republican): Sorry you are tire of my calling you out for engaging in ad hominem attacks and lacking facts and/or not citing facts to dispute those I present. Can’t help that. It is a fact that the middle class is atrophying and the super-rich are getting even richer. Why do you think that is or is that not even important to you? I guess if you, like me are a caucasian and a member of a privileged group, got it good, your fellow citizen’s well-being doesn’t matter. I am sorry, but I was taught something other than the “prosperity gospel” when I attended Sunday school as a child. Wake up, America!

Edwards would be smart to make some outstate MO stops, if he’s still in the race then. He could build on the support of several outstate legislators who have endorsed him, and he could carry several rural congressional districts and get their delegates. With Obama and Hillary dividing the urban/suburban vote, Edwards even has some shot at winning Missouri.

BTW, does anybody actually edit the Post’s editorial page? Today’s Matson cartoon (Click on “Matson” on the column on the left side of the stltoday home page) depicts Hillary wearing an “I got crushed by Obama” t-shirt infront of an overturned Hillary campaign bus on a road marked New Hampshire. Did anybody read the front page? Didn’t they have a backup cartoon? Also it was just this past Sunday that the Post included a Parade magazine with a cover story about a living Benazir Bhutto.

Whiterose, you’re not calling me out. You’re defending the undefendable!

Meanwhile, I don’t have to provide facts to refute yours, because you have yet to provide anything other than rhetoric.

Mostly male, mostly pale, and always stale - Lizz Brown, you never fail!

The debating style of Jim(the republican)and Nick leave something to desire. They remind me of second grade playground behavior: why is that so, because I say so, that’s why! I know that this is CheneyBush’s usual response to anyone questioning that regime’s moves, but, please, right wingers, do try and come up with some relevant debate points. You are better than CheneyBush and better than that! If you believe that the middle class is prospering under the current regime, then cite your facts. Income inequality is higher now than at any time since before the Great Depression; why is that? Hmmm…stumped? Not surprised. And Nick, if it makes you feel good to call me Lizz Brown, then go ahead. I could care less. But I will tell you this: when I put on a suit, I wouldn’t stand out in a picture of the country club types who run our beloved country. Although I am male and pale, I am not stale, and also not in spiritual kinship with the plutocracy. Howard Zinn says it best: when the middle class combines with the working folks, the upper class is going to shudder. Change is coming; get used to it. Wake up, America!

whiterosesociety:

I’m 50 y.o. and I’ve been hearing that tired ‘workers of the word unite!’ “stuff” for all of those years. Of course it goes back much further that that… ask Jack Reed or Gus Hall… both died waiting for the American worker to rise up!

The only positive thing I can pass on about all this far, far, left insanity is that ‘Communist Girls are Easy’

Hey tsquare: your buddies on the second grade playground and all of their ad hominemisms are waiting for you! Don’t any of you right wingers have any facts with which to debate? This is all to easy for me; I need some competition. Probably I should switch back to a national blog where the right wingers have a better command of their facts and can make a few points. Very disappointing! Wake up, America!

Lizz, income equality is up because people at the high end of the income scale are making a lot more money. But the fact is, people at the low end are living much larger than they used to. The programs to eliminate hunger and homelessness have been in place for decades. The biggest problem facing the working poor today is coming up for next week’s payment on the 42″ plasma from Rent-A-Center. Yes, the poor in America would be amongst the wealthy in most nations of the world. But you keep on complaining because a handful of CEOs are scoring big.

WRS - seriously, dude, get help with that Jim Talent problem you have. It’s a little frightening. Should Jim Talent be alerted to get personal security? What did he do to you? He is a very nice fellow and I like him.

WRS - for the love of God, please go back to a national blog - it was so pleasant while you were away. I left and will do it again if you continue on this one. Your “Wake up America” is putting me to sleep.

Jake,
Really? Links to Wikipedia?!